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Making the infantry of Arashi
Pickle:
Were fire teams part of the organisation of any organised military force in the early twentieth century? - we are supposed to be closer to WW1, than C21 asymmetrical post-colonial NDYPOMP exercises. There is no Treaty of Versailles in the canon.
Sgt. Spoon:
I certainly hope that they'll be able to whip up some more interesting counter against the guild then just pillaging and random encounters
Lord Dick Tim:
Ill have to do some digging but I believe napoleons army worked in different organizational phases for urban to field fighting.
Most ww1 militaries were organized, at the least, down to the platoon level. That I know from memory, I'll need to study up for a better understanding, there was a lot of doctrine reforms after the great war.
Pickle:
The Napoleonic saw the introduction of riflemen as skirmishers, but even into 1914 the wearing of camouflage is considered unsporting, and the targeted shooting of officers is positively ungentlemanly as the rank and file might do absolutely anything without an upper class twit to lead them. I do like the quote, unattributed but always said to be around the time of WW1, "The purpose of cavalry is to lend a touch of class to what would otherwise be a rather vulgar brawl" - infantry was strictly working class cannon fodder.
Much of the reform in the modern military came as a result of the Great War. Without the Treaty of Versailles to rebel against, would the modern German army have been created? - and remember just how fare behind Great Britain lagged in terms of military progress at the outset of WWII. In 1937 the RAF were putting the Gloster Gladiator into service, whilst the Luftwaffe were equipping squadrons with the Bf109.
Wazulu :
Ooh, that's an interesting twist on the Arashi- I'll defer to you, Tim, but perhaps there could be a caste system in effect, whereby all lower class became infantry and higher ones cavalry, in this case airship crew and pilots. I'd like this distinction, but I don't think it works perfectly- honestly, I think there's too much rag-tag in the Arashi ship design to carry it. Annoyingly, I think a caste system would work the Baronies, as they already have a diverse set of households who hold dominion.
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